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The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1887-09-13
San Francisco Salmon Market.

The demand for salmon continues
unabated, all grades being eagerly
picked up. Columbia river brands
are virtually cleaned mp, the last spot
sale being lot to 60 forward to Aus
tralia by next steamer which brought
Sl75 per dozen. Alaska fish, to ar.
rive, is firm at SL571s@I60, with
none on the spot to quote. Packing
ceased on the Sacramento on the 31st
ult., and the small stock upsold is
rapidly passing into consumption at
SI571a@1.60 per dozen. The schoon-
er Sadie +. Caller arrived from Alas
ka yesterday with so barrels and 5000
cases OF salmon most of which had
been disposed of prior to arrival
Daily Comm. Ne1os, 9.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1887-09-13
Meeting Notice.
A Genuine Boom.

n Stoves, Ranges and Heaters. Another
overland arrival recently OF these celebra-
ted goods. being the fourth carload brought
TO this market since November. 's8. 1t re-
quires no loquacity 10 dispose Of these
ness. Sold only by kagnus G. Crosby.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1887-09-13

The best oysters in any style at
Fabre's
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1887-09-13
Private Rooms.

At Frank Fabre's for suppers, par.
ties, etc. The best cooked to order.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1887-09-13

For a Fine Dish Of lee Cream
Go to the Central Restaurant, next TO
FOard Il Stokes.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1887-09-13
$4,000, 900 Capital

Liverpool & London g. Globe, North British
and Mercantile OF London and Edinburgh.
California Agricultural, Of WATERFOWL, New
York, London s. Lancashire OF Liverpool,
Eng. Fire Insurance Companies, Represent
In capital Of S67 600 600.
b, VAN DUSEN. Agent.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1887-09-13
BORN.

In Astoria, Sept. 18th, to the wife OF
j. w. Gearhart, daughter.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1887-09-13
This VIII Interest You.

For the very best pictures go to ii. ).
Slusfer.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1887-09-13
Ali Thereil

Ice cream, fine quality supplied at
short notice by Frank Fabre, any part
OF the city: $3.50 gallon.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-05-05
Beauty Well Ballasted.

The modern woman is well ballasted.
If she had the wings that go with the
celestial qualities the romancers as
cribe to her they bad need be of good
size and stoutly feathered to lift her
and her paraphernalia above the
ground.
The writer tried the scales upon her
hat and wrap last week. The little
jet and lace affair that fits so jauntily
over her shoulders, and looks as airy
and light as the spring morning itself,
is no such gossamer. 1t need weigh
next to nothing, but it can and does
run as high as thirty pounds. Ten
pounds is good average weight for
glitter and tinkle enough to make a
panoply of sparkling sun-points of
their owner as she walks the streets
looking like a dewdrop and feeling
like lump of lead.
The long and dignified raglan that
covers the figure from top to toe has
possibilities in the way of beads that
are not granted it for nothing, and it
improves them to the full. Forty
pounds it is said to weigh; there are
fairy tales of fifty, but the writer
speaks only whereof she knows. The
bonnet hardly knows the meaning OF
avoirdupois till it makes the acquaint-
ance of that black king jet, but then
it weighs down the scales in right
lordly fashion. Four pounds is little
enough for glittering beaded crown.
and there are heads that submit to
eight and nine without a murmur for
the sake of such regal diadem.
Forty-fve pounds has jetted gown
been known to weigh; plus thirty for
the wrap and five for the bonnet, the
sum is a nice little total of eighty
pounds for the proverbially delicate
American woman TO carry about with
her on promenades.-NeO York Mai
and Express.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-05-05
Experiments in Gastronomy.

II is well known that many birds and
beasts are unpalatable at certain times
of the year, owing to the food they eat,
On the other hand, it is proved that the
canvas back duck, the most delicious
morsel known to mortal palate, owes
its exquisite aroma entirely to the So
called wild celery on which it feeds in
the Chesapeake bay, for if the same
bird is killed in the state of New York,
or in New Jersey, its flavor Is not su-
perior to other ducks. Again. the
flavor of Congo chickens is described
by an African tourist as being of pecu-
liar excellence, and he adds that these
chickens are fed almost exclusively on
pine-apples. Why should not the prin-
ciple here involved be applied in a
systematic manner? BY rearing poul-
try and other animals on food of spe-
cial fragrance this quality might be i'm
parted to their meat, and the produc-
ers, like certain wine-grOwers, might
make fortunes by securing an interna-
tional reputation for the excellence of
their special ''brands." Such original
nuances of flavor would not only de-
light the epicures, but stimulate anew
the tagging appetites ofinvalids, prove
potent weapon in combating the
most prevalent of modern disorders,
dyspepsia, besides opening wide field
for the exercise of human ingenuity
and creating new industry.-Ihe
Contemporary ReCieW.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-05-05
Where Beer Originated.

The birthplace of beer is Egypt. A
papyrus has been discovered on which
a father reproaches his son for loung-
ing about in taverns and drinking too
much beer From the Egyptians the
art of brewing beer descended to the
EthiOpians. While the Romans de-
spised beer, the Germans of the north
of Europe fully appreciated its good
qualities. At present the yearly pro-
duction throughout the whole world
amounts to 140, 900, 900 hectolitres, En-
gland taking the lead with $4,000, 900.
Prof Schwackhofer of Vienna thinks
that beer fully deserves the designa-
ton of liquid bread, as it is undoubt-
edly nutritious, and less liable to be
adUlterated than wine, w-
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-05-05
Living in the Ground

Some day, when the ;IrchaoiOgist of
the three-thousandth century is exca-
waiting America, he will come upon
traces of a kind of people he will not
understand, says writer in the San
Francisco Chronicle. He will write
volumes upon the subject of the
strange race who, some time in the
dim past, looking from that time, lived
in the holes in the ground He will
find pans and cooking utensils and
picks and shovels down anywhere from
three to three thousand feet under the
earth, and he will prove from them
that the inha abitants of this great con-
tinent to-day had their habitations
there because of the weather or earth
quakes OF something. The holes in
the ground will never be proved to be
mines. There will be enough doubt
on the subject, raised by the discovery
of the tailings, to awaken arguments
and give the scientific world that only
chance of being heard by the loudness
of its quarreling over trihes. But there
are millions of holes in the ground in
Nevada which will be absolute proof
that it was not mining, because the
archeologist will never be able to find
trace of metal of any kind in them.
The future archeologist is going to
have lots of fun. He'll try and decipher
old notices of claims, and then he'll
publish reams of paper giving ingeni-
Gus explanations of that age when men
had such numerous families that they
had to locate !, 500 feet for burial plats
for one man and his progeny. He'll
pick up on the 8, 3,0O0-foot level a piece
of newspaper that has covered some
miners lunch, and he will prove from
that that the crust of earth must have
been transparent in the nineteenth
century, because people can't read
newspapers without light. Oh, yes!
I'd like to wake up about the thirtieth
century and see how they fancy we
lived in the nineteenth.
lt'wOuld not be half bad idea for
the state to buy the Comstock for
buryingground. We could then boast
of our catacombs. The public have
purchased it and had it all carefully
cut out with galleries and things. And
they could put up slabs and stones as
they do in Westminster Abbey, don't
you know. The ubiquitous tourist who
always goes into church in strange
country with his hat on, because God
knows he has pew at home, would be
able to define the progress of humanity
in the mining business by studying
such inscriptions as:
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-05-05
years of age, and is one of four heirs to

years of age, and is one of four heirs to
$5.OOO,0O0 left by her grandfather,
Hays, the glass manufacturer. She is
attending the OgOntz school at Phila-
delphia, which occupies jay Cookies
old home. Irwin Laughlin, age 10
years, is an orphan and the sole heiress
to millions. Her parents marriage
was sad one. Her father was then
dying of consumption, and an extend-
ed tour of Europe prolonged life for
brief period only. The wife died of
grief shortly after the birth of her little
daughter. An interesting fact is that
nearly all the stock of the old and
wealthy Bank of Pittsburg is owned by
ladies.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-05-05

The usefulness of asphalt paper ap-
pears to be demonstrated by its con-
stantly multiplying applications. In
thin sheets it is found admirably
adapted for wrapping silks or other
fabrics that need protection from moist
ure, also for lining cases, packing
boxes for pianos, etc.. and, rolled up
into pipes, for conveying water. As
phalt tubes are but one-tifth the weight
of iron, will not rust, and are quite
tough and strong; they are simply
sheets of paper, of peculiar quality,
dipped in melted asphalt, and then
rolled upon cylinder.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-05-05
Angel or Demon.

You call me an angel of love and light,
A being of goodness and heavenly fire.
Sent out from Gods kingdom to guide you
In paths where your spirit may mount and
aspire.
You say that glow like star on it's course,
Like ray from the altar, spark from It's
source.
Now list to my answer; let all the world
] speak unafraid what know to be true;
A pure, faithful love is the creative spirit
That makes women angels. live but IN
We are bound soul to soul by life's holiest
And if am an angel, why, you are the cause.
As my ship skins the sea look up from he
Fair, firm at the wheel shines loves beau
tiful form;
And shall scorn the barque that last night
BY the pilot abandoned to darkness and
storm?
My craft was no stancher; she too had been
Had the wheelsman deserted or slept at his
post.
I laid down the wealth of my soul at your
feet
Some woman does that for some man every
day..
No desperate creature who walks in the
street
Has a wickeder heart than I might have, 1
Had you wantonly misused the treasures you
won,
As so many men with heart-riches have done.
This fire from Gods altar this holy love-fiame
That burns like sweet incense forever for
you,
Night now be wild confagration of shame,
Had you tortured my heart, or been base or
untrue.
For angels and devils are cast in one mould,
Till love guides them upward or downward,
hold.
tell you, the women that make fervent
wives
And sweet, tender mothers, had fate been
less fair,
Are the women that might have abandoned
their lives
To the madness that springs from and ends
in despair.
As the fire on the hearth, which sheds bright
ness around,
Neglected may level the walls to the ground.
The world makes grave errors in judging
these things,
Great good and great evil are born in one
breast.
Love horns us and hoofs U.S. or gives us our
wings,
And the best could be worst, and the worst
could be best.
You may thank your own worth for what
grew to be,
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-05-05

Mrs. Amanda Sykes, of Edmonton,
Georgia, has a goose which for the
past four years has begun to lay for
the season on the day that corn
planting was commenced on the place.
No matter whether the day was in
February or in March. the goose be-
gan laying each year ON the very day
that they commenced planting corn.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-05-05

Mrs. Nancy Frost, formerly of Low
ell, Mass, is the oldest lady in Ohio.
She was born 1Q3 Ysags aSa
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-05-05
A. w. BEMAl

Attorney at Law. OFFICE, No. 26O8
Broadway dsth Ward. Cleveland. Ohio. 77s
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-05-05
Business Cards.
J. Fl. DUssELL,
p p MT

TTORNEV AT LAW, Counsel In
IA English and German. Office over Fi.Ih's
Clothing Store. Phenix Block, Ravenna,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-05-05

I. H, PHELPS
TTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT
~ Law, Office over BELDING Arm
6fRoNG's, Main st., Ravenna. Ohio.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-05-05
r n PHELPS

TTORNEY AT LAW, Ravenna, o.
IN ONCE in Blackstone Block, North Chest.
nut Street. Ravenna, Ohio
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-05-05

M. G. MCBRIDE, M. D.,
homeopathic Phssician and Surgeon.
OFFICE in Poe's BLOCK. over Grocery OF Is. A.
VanN 3ss,
RESIDENCE on Cleveland Avenue 9th residence
North OF Bowery street. SAT
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-05-05
A. N. FARR.

A. N. FARR,
NOTARY PUBLIC, Mantua. o. Con-
IN veyancing, Collections and Pension Busi-
5oss promptly attended to on the most reason
able terms. 6lS-u.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-05-19
Amusing Children.

A Californian who is the father of
a dozen children has hit upon a scheme
by which the youngsters enjoy them
selves to their hearts content and at
the same time do bit of work for
which their parent would have to pay
heavily were he 20 employ some other
agency. He lives in Los Angeles
county, where he owns a large tract
of land which requires constant irriga=
ton to makeit productive, and as his
bank account is not large he had consid-
cradle trouble in obtaining sufficient
water for his land Finally bright
idea struck him. He dug a sixty-foot
well, put in cheap pump, and rugged
at some distance one of those big family
swings common in pleasure gardens.
Here, you little rascals," said Price
to his little fishes. ''come out here and
get in this swing. I'm going to give
you something to play with" In five
the children were flying back
and forth through the air. The pump
worked up and down making merry
tune, and fourteen inch stream of
water flowed from the well. The
don't know that they are
as the well is not in sight and
the swing connects with the pump by
an iron rod. The youngsters raise e.
enough water during day to irrigate
large tract of land.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-05-19
Hints TO Housewives.
In cleaning silver kerosene may be
usQd with a,tvapfaUa

In cleaning silver kerosene may be
used with advantage.
Carpets may be frightened by dust
ing with damp flannel mop.
Egg stains can be removed by rub
bling with common table salt.
Rub oiled furniture with a wooden
cloth saturated slightly with OIL
Stains on wood can be removed with
strong vinegar or salts of lemon.
Leather chair seats may be revived
by rubbing them with well-beaten white
OF egg.
Sandpaper will whiten ivory knife
handles that NAV have become yellow
with use or age.
White paint that may have become
discolored may be nicely cleaned by
using little whiting in the water for
washing
A brilliant black varnish for iron
stoves and tireplaces is made by stir
ring iyory-black into ordinary shellac
varnish.
A good cement for china is ordinary
carriage varnish; if put together neatly
the fracture will be hardly perceptible,
and it is not affected by water.
Galvanized iron pals are not desira-
bic recep;acles for drinking-water. The
zine coating is quickly affected by the
water. forming poisonous oxide of
ENC.
For cleaning brasses belonging TO
mahogany furniture use either powder
ed whiting or scraped rottenstone mixed
with sweet oil and rub on with a cham
ois skin.
A window open a slight distance both
top and bottom. and u chimney
dfaught also open. are the only sure
ways OF keeping pure air in sleeping
room whose doors are closed.
Vinegar is better than ice for keeping
fish
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-05-19
Another Great Clock

Another great clock has been added
10 the theological wonders of the world
"a piece of mechanism that will we
with the elaborate marvel Of Strasburg
Cathedral, and put the professional
curiosity of Berne Tower into the shade.
The latest effort of the renowned Chris
tian Martin of Villingen, in the Black
Forest, is said, in its way, TO surpass
anything of the kind yet attempted. 1t
is three and half metres high, two
and three-quarters broad, and shows
the seconds, minutes, quarter hours,
hours, days, weeks, months, the four
seasons, the years and leap years until
the last sound Of the year 99,999 Of the
Christian era.
Moreover, il tells on the face the cor
rect time for various ATTITUDES, together
with the phases of the moon and var
iety Of useful information generally con-
fined to the pages of an almanac.
1t also contains vast number OF
working figures representing the life OF
man, the creed Of Christendom, and the
ancient Pagan and Teutonic mytholo-
giles. Sixty separate and individual
Z
lied statuettes strike the sixty minutes.
Death is represented as in Holbein's
famous dance, in the form OF skele-
ton. In another part appear the
Twelve Apostles, the Seven Ages OF
Man, modelled after the description of
Shakespeare. the four seasons, the
twelve signs Of the Zodiac, and SO on.
During the nighttime watchman
sallies forth, and blows upon his horn;
while at sunrise ehanticleer appears and
crows Justify The cuckoo also calls;
but only once a year--on the first day
in spring. Besides the figures there is
whole series of movable figures ia
enamel, exhibiting in succession the
seven days Of Creation and the fourteen
Stations of the Gross. At certain
hour little sacristan rings bell in the
spire, and kneels down and folds his
hands as if in prayer; and, above all,
the musical works are said TO have q
sweet and delicious futelike tone.-SE
james Gazette.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-05-19
Lock of woran's Hair.

American ladies' in general have fine
hair. 1t grows abundantly, like other
vegetables. under these favoring skies.
But they do not take altogether COOL
care Of it. The hair needs a great deal
of ventilation. 1t should fe brushed
and separated by a wide-toothed comb
morning and evening 1t should be
allowed to hang down untrammeled by
combs, pins or strings when one is in
deshabille; but no married woman
should ever appear in company with
dishevelled hair. A few years ago this
frantic mode prevailed among women
Of poor taste and limited reading. The
flowing hair is the mark of a virgin in
all pictorial art. and is so mentioned BY
Horace Walpole in his history Of paint
ing, published more than a hundred
years ago. Queen Victoria will not
permit married woman whose hair is
flying about her shoulders TO approach
her presence; but the little Wales and
Edinburgh girls-her grandchildren
wear their golden locks unfcttered bv
the snOod.
In spite Of the dictum Of in
tercsted hairscllers and hairdressers.
nothing is 50 beautiful and becoming
to a woman as luxuriant natural hair,
simply twined about the head, while a
truant loye-lock here and there escapes
from bondage and fails in curves Of
beauty on the browS,
OLIVE LOGAN.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-05-19
He Had Been Figuring.

well. it does beat all what fools reo-
pie are getten' 10 be, said an old farm
er. who sat in seat in the corner, pen
Gil and paper in hand. Here | read
in the paper that Mister Abbey gives
Patti. the opera singer. $1,000 a night
fer singiu', an so per cent of the re-
ceipts above $4,000. At a concert in
New York the gate money was $4,000,
an Ars. Patti must have got s., 500 of
that Great gosh. what a farm that
would buy out in Iowa! But I've been
iigurin' on this thing. and / want you
10 take look ut the results. The
paper says she sang five songs. Jewhil-
iikens. but that's more than $1,000 a
song. 1t couldn't take her morn ten
minutes to sing one Of her pieces. an
that's 500 minute, or nearly g
second. BY gosh. I'm goin' to have
my darters educated TO be singers. -
Chicago Herald
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-05-19

There is certain variety in the man
ner of giving and taking light for q
cigar that is interesting to all smokers.
The Italians aud French successfully
copy the Spanish style. which is the
most graceful and elegant of all, the
only possible objection to it being that
it may sometimes carry politeness be-
vond reasonable range. But. after all,
it is simple and friendly enough. The
Spaniard bows and asks his neigh
Dor for a light. The latter re-
turning the bow, Immediately pre-
SCENTS him with his cigar and after
procuring the needed fire from it, re-
verses it skillfully and returns il, the
entire operation being accompanied by
another graceful bow, aud each raises
his hat a. he turns to 60 away. The
Spaniard always smokes through his
nose. He considers it eXtravagant 10
waste any good smoke through his
mouth. and inycterate smokers in all
countries agree with him.
The German Is more polite in asking
for a light than he is in giyingit. Even
with the best intentions, in the latter
case his efforts have all the appearance
of reluctance. Sometimes, when his
cigar is smoked down nearly far enough
he will throw it away Immediately after
granting a request for fire, This among
the Latins IS considered rude and boor-
ish in the extreme, and Is sometimes re
garded as positively insulting
The average Englishman hcsitates be-
fore he gives a light, and finally acts Is
if he had achieved a mighty feat in con
descension. Instead of lifting his hat,
his hand is more likely to 90 into his
pocket. and he is apt to give q parting
puff with an air of Indignation as he
stalks away. Possibly this comes from
the fact that he never asks for a light
himself. and is always well armed with
matches.
The American of late seems to be
somewhat averse to letting any one
take light from his cigar. He takes
it for granted that il must be much bet
ter than his neighbor' :. and, not wish
ing to contaminate it, he answers an
appeal for fire with a match. Some
times he politely lights the match, and
in such cases he presents it with an air
good enough for any Spaniard. Bat
this somewhat new custom may posi-
bly, be of Irish parentage. The Irish
peasant Away strikes a match for his
iireless friend or fellow traveller, and
even IA a gale of wind he will hold u
lighted match in the hollow of his hands
and humorously issue orders for the
capture of the precious flame.
The giving or taking of a light for n
cigar is 4 small affair, but little things
often reveal a great deal of the charac-
ter, disposition and breeding of men.
Il should always be offered cheerfully
and taken politely. In this country it
need not be done with that extreme po-
likeness and elegance which may be
said to be the exclusive property Of the
Latins, and which is probably beyond
the reach of colder and more sober
races; but it should be accompanied By
that good fellowship which is governed
bv common sense-the foundation Of
all politeness.-New YORK. Sun.